Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

[Vincent Torri <vtorri univ-evry fr>]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, jcupitt gmail com wrote:

> 2008/10/21 Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>:
> > But I admit I don't have any *really* strong preference. If it really
> > is so that the majority of people who distribute GTK+ apps on Windows
> > would prefer that the pixbuf loaders were separate DLLs I can return
> > to that. Is there anybody out there who prefers having built-in
> > loaders?
>
> I think I prefer separate loaders, if I understand the trade-offs correctly.
>
> The app I package and distribute needs tiff/jpeg load and save, so
> having an extra copy of the libraries statically linked in to the gtk
> stack bulks up my zip unnecessarily. My app also includes libMagick,
> so I think I might have three copies of libtiff and libjpeg in my
> download at the moment, annoyingly.

speaking of that, as there are other Windows library, not related to gtk, 
that may use libjpeg, tiff, png, etc..., woud it be possible to install 
them in a drectory not specific to GTK (like in Program Files/Common 
Files/generic, or something like that) ?

Vincent Torri